7th & 8th December, 2006
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Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
Until someone offers you something better than your
big dream, don't give up on it.
FROM the¨BOOKS
Snowflakes in the Wine
It rained today, all day
everything was the sound of rain.
Children laughing in the streets
police whistles
cars splashing mud at one another
even the music on the radio
sounded like the rain.
Tonight the storm is nearly over.
I walked down by the railway station
to watch the trains come in
and not once was I asked the time
nor did a stranger stop and want a light.
Sometimes on rainy nights
I forgot I'm in a foreign country.
It's about twelve-thirty now.
Most everyone has gone to bed.
Something is pushing me,
making me think.
I miss you.
-from "Winter," 1972
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Thursday 7 December
Fay Bainter o
Priscilla Barnes o
Johnny Bench o
Larry Bird o
Ellen Burstyn o
Rod Cameron o
Aaron Carter o
Joyce Carey o
Willa Cather o
Harry Chapin o
Rudolf Frimi o
Herman Goetz o
Edd Hall o C.
Thomas Howell o
Ted Knight o
Gerard Kuiper o
Tino Martinez o
Mary, Queen of Scots o
Gary Morris o
Gordon Parks, Jr. o
Louis Prima o
Edmundo Ross o
Ernst Toch o
Madam Tussaud o
Tom Waits o
Eli Wallach, Jr.
Friday
8 December
Gregg Allman o
Morgan Ames o
Kim Basinger o
David Carradine o
Lee J. Cobb o
Sammy Davis, Jr. o
James Galway o
Teri Hatcher o
Joel Chandler Harris o
Horace o
Sam Kinison o
Mary Queen of Scots o
James MacArthur o
Jim Morrison o
Sinead O'Connor o
Jean Ritchie o
Diego Rivera o
John Rubinstein o
Maximillan Schell o
Jean Sibelius o
Adele Simpson o
James Thurber o
Eli Whitney o o
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December's always worth the wait and worth the weight of snow it brings.
Sometimes fear is punishment enough.
Grudges are boring.
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Laughter Through the Crystal |
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Not so much for safety as for peace
do I retreat into imagination.
Retreat might be the wrong word
my mind's people take me forward.
Still... imagination's devices
do the needed job
when you're not here,
when no one's here.
Just now I've been awakened
by the screeching of mad bluejays.
The coffee isn't ready
the morning paper
won't arrive
for one more hour.
No need to even think.
The Morse code of coffee perking
in this room
now occupied by only me says it all
like laughter through the crystal.-from "Too Many Midnights," 1981 |
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